This collection includes theses and dissertations from the College of Arts and Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Recent studies on the reactions and synthesis of nitrogen and sulfur - containing heterocyclic pharmacophores., Bernard Louis Adjei
Peer functioning and risk for co-occurring ADHD and anxiety symptoms in school-aged children: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis., Helena F. Alacha
The effects of geographic isolation and anthropogenic activity on the social behavior of Caribbean green Monkeys., Rose Amrhein
A Black Sherlock Holmes: An exploration of nonconforming characterization., Faith Janaye Artis
My achilles years., Ash William Bittner
The voices behind the screen: Navigating the politics of work-time, identity, visibility, and tokenism in the workplace., John Douglas Broadus Jr.
Demon in the dark: A collection of short stories., Giovanna Claudia Burkett
Sex-based differences in osteoarthritis in early medieval Spain: A case study from Visigoth and Carolingian period Terrassa., Jordan Chatellier
Untitled: Study., Annabela Cockrell
Everything and nothing found in the house of leaves: A multiliterate analysis of multimodal writing., Jennings Collins
Light without memory., John Day
Healthcare access and agency in material culture: a specialized analysis of pharmaceutical artifacts from Louisville’s West End., Sara Marian (Deurell) Ignacio
Creating new points of access: how integrating Black acting methods strengthens the Western theatre canon., Darrin Edward Dispenza-Mosley
Women and gender non-conforming introductory STEM students navigating gender, faculty expectations, and college support systems., Trisha A. Douin-Manning
Assessing medical decision-making capacity: The importance of patient values., Emilee M. Ertle
Linked lives in the riverbed: Integrating fish host dynamics, community structure, and demography for freshwater mussel conservation., Jonathan Patrick Frommeyer
"No one leaves for free": A media analysis of the lived experiences and cumulative impacts of the Flint water crisis., Jordan Leigh Gatewood
Incarcerated women: Gendered rhetoric from the outside and reality inside prison walls., Taylor Riley Geiser
Synthetic and pharmacological diversity of nitrogen-containing heterocycles., Shramana Ghosh
From Afghanistan to Louisville: Changing face of family and gender roles in Afghan immigrants in Louisville, Kentucky., Zohal Ghoura
Can exploring before instruction improve underrepresented STEM students’ learning compared to traditional methods? Investigating psychosocial factors., Katherine G. Golway
Affective teacher tok: A sociomaterial analysis of teachers’ digital literacy practices on social media., Jessica Nicole Gottbrath
Emotion regulation, reasoning, and procedural safeguards in politically-polarized moral dilemmas., Alanea Graci
Coalitional belonging as praxis: first-year writing and student community creation in the post-DEI university., Kendyl C. Harmeling
Dirty Dianthus: A review of the Microbotryum-Dianthus plant pathogen system., Roxanne Kaaren Hayes
Studies of pathways to T2D and interventions through a dynamical system model., Rafiqul Islam
Reclaiming space: Unhoused population and their use of public libraries., Marcellos Desmond Jackson
Genetic influence of allelic variation on the phenotypic variability of cognitive outcomes in individuals with Williams syndrome., Marinie P. Joseph
Ecosystem services of urban green spaces in Louisville, KY., Julia Kachanova
Tel Jezreel's medieval crusader cemetery: A case study in contemporary burial practices and necroviolence against infants and children., Autumn Koehling
Estimation methods for Bayesian exponential random graph models under the horseshoe prior., Pamela Linares
From slaveship to championship: Pan-Africanism, the Black Atlantic, and reframing the rumble in the jungle., Garret S. McCorkle
Movement on the ladder: The lesbian avant-garde in America., Sarah Melloy
For you, by who? Undergraduate students enacting critical digital literacy with the TikTok "for you page" algorithm., Rachel Morgan
Concurrently implementing Islam and democracy in Afghanistan: Failure causes and future prospects., Mohammad Riaz Nassiry
Rhetorical analysis of Kristen Bell's articulation of imperfect motherhood on armchair expert., Sarah J. Neff
Examining parent accommodation of anxiety and irritability in preschool-aged children., Anna Olczyk
Black women under the white gaze: Resistance from enslavement to incarceration and reentry., Barbie C. Parker
Promoting metacognitive awareness through exploratory learning., Ryan J. Patrick
Wide screen with critical essay "translating a poetry of cinema"., James L. Richie IV
The impacts of management practices on industrial hemp chemistry, physiology, and microbiome ecology., Allison Marie Rietman
Dust observations of occulting galaxy pair VV 191., Clayton Robertson
Black childhood in focus: Counter-histories of Black urban childhood in preserve the Baltimore uprising, a 21st century digital participatory archive., Ameena Basheera X Ruffin
Crossed stitches: Tension and transformation in nineteenth-century embroidery samplers., Hayley Salo
Tracing Clovis landscapes: Chert sourcing at the Copelin Valley site in Kentucky., Shaylee Scott
Evaluating the relationship between musical sophistication and melodic and harmonic expectations., Anya Elizabeth Shorey-Smith
Thin-film optical filters for selective transmission and black-body reflection in pyroelectric energy systems., Cedric Cruz Silva
Dementia caregiving styles: Characterizing dementia caregivers via a novel framework., Darby M. Simon
Nonlinear power function model changepoint detection., Jacob Steven Townson
"That’s not a meal, bestie”: Humor, identity, & feminized consumption in “Girl Dinner”., Claire Tudor
Changing globally, acting locally: responses of coastal plant functional traits to global change are mediated by biotic and abiotic interactions., Shannon L. Walker
Necessitating autonomy: Performing Black womanhood., Krystal Chavonne Waller
Everyday justice and neighborhood associations., Rebecca Wells-Gonzalez
A sacrifice on the altar of unity: the loss of Black identity in the unification of Kynett and LaGrange First UMC., Rebecca Sue Wishnevski
The substance of reality: Moral perfectionism in Shakespeare's Hamlet., David Wright
Queer convergence: Figurative abstraction in contemporary art., Vincent Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Using the State-Reinforced Self-Governance framework to evaluate neighborhood revitalization in the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative., Gifty Amma Adusei
You don’t look sick: Epistemic injustice, ethos, and embodied expertise in narratives of chronic illness., Caitlin Burns Allen
Social undermining among police officers in the United States., Weston B. Anderson
Constitutive chefs: The ethos and constitutive rhetoric of Anthony Bourdain, Sean Sherman, and Mashama Bailey., Michael Jared Benjamin
Faculty and "Teams": Academic literacies in the post-lockdown, digital university., Morgan Suzanne Blair
Utilizing metal ligand cooperativity to activate small molecules., Christine Burgan
A study of post-quantum cryptographic schemes., Max Cartor
Ligand-stabilized SnO2 as a high-performance and scalable electron transport material for inverted perovskite solar cells., Sashil Chapagain
That limbless sign the thesis document., Donna R. Charging
Alabaster glory., Chloe Cheng
Preserving archaeology in the digital age: Evaluating strategies for effective curation and database management., Cenetria Leshun Crockett
The superhero gothic: The montrous hero to the heroic monster in the twentieth century., John Darowski
An investigation into the structural features that control factor xiii stability and substrate specificity., Rameesa Darul Amne Syed Mohammed
Social identity and personhood at an early byzantine cemetery: Late antique child burials at Syedra, Turkiye., Mekenzie Riley Davis
Origin stories., Danielle Deeley
Examination of solutrean lithic technology at the Vale Boi site, Southwestern Portugal., Jordan Durham
Contested spaces: Unhoused black men and their survival within the urban landscape., Jonathan Riley Ellis
The utilization of grassroots organizing by Black women pioneers to achieve reproductive justice., Madison Ruth Ellsworth
Examining associations between parental meta-emotion, child ADHD symptoms, and socioemotional impairments., Meaghan Flynn
Applying exploratory learning methods to sociopolitical beliefs and cognition., Sarah French
Inside the dojo of digital media: What marginalized student perspectives reveal about multiliteracy center practices., Lauren Fusilier
Children's beliefs about search engines., Lauren N. Girouard-Hallam
Risk perception, diabetes risk knowledge, and fatalism in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes: a self-determination theory perspective., Cassandra M. Gonzalez
Transforming into a politically engaged actor through Gem of the Ocean., Tajleed Steven Hardy
Effects of a protection zone in a reaction-diffusion model with shifting bounded habitat and Allee effect., Davis Henderson
Coproduction revisited: From theory to practice., Brenton Clarke Hereford
Assessing the impacts of soil arthropods on geochemical transformations., Thomas Blake Hudson
Exploring resilience with neuroimaging: Moderators of the impacts of childhood traumatic stress on fear processing., Karisa June Hunt
Investigations of physical properties of novel magnetic and non- magnetic two-dimensional (2D) alloys., Mohammed Ameen Irziqat
Class of 1884: Black education in Louisville and the inaugural graduating class of Central colored high school., Jordan Tierre Jackson-Collins
Art justice: The Nazi aesthetic, cultural theft, and restitution in the 21st century., Kathryn Elaina Jacob
Engaging for a cause: How nonprofits can leverage theory to maximize video engagement on Instagram., Aiko A. A. A. Jones
Unveiling emergency psychiatric healthcare disparities: an analysis of U.S. emergency department encounters., Anna Elizabeth Kelecy
The affable Raphael: Milton's surrogate instructor in paradise lost., Beau Kilpatrick
The role of forest disturbance and habitat characteristics in shaping arthropod ecology., Kane Alec Lawhorn
Adding texture through historical research: using dramaturgy to aid in the creation of Elizabeth (Bess) Borney., Nyazia Brittany Martin
Winter's threads., Andrew Wesley Messer
From surface to subtext: portrayals of success in superfund remediation., Haley Metcalf-Wade
Lost in the (re)process: Challenging constructions of downtown Louisville through the urban renewal commission photograph collection., Cassidy Meurer
Black rebels: African American revolutionaries from North Carolina during and after the war of independence., Andrea N. Miles
Preventing the violent (re)victimization of sexual minority populations: the role of social support networks., Bryan Charles Moore
